[Tutor] Is there a function for refreshing what's in the console?

[Danny Yoo]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Dimitrije Nikic wrote:

> Is there a function for refreshing what's in the console? (Eg. delete
> everything printed previously in the window)

There's the silly answer of:

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for i in range(80):
    print
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*grin* But you're probably thinking something more on the lines of
clearing the whole screen, and having the cursor at the top.  For that, if
you're running Windows, try:

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import os
os.system('cls')
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If you're running a Unix:

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import os
os.system('clear')
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As you can tell, the problem is that it's somewhat system dependent, and I
don't think anyone's written a nice module that hides this dependency yet.



Hope this helps!